A Repertory of Homoeopathic Nosodes & Sarcodes

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Nosodes and Sarcodes have a special place in our homeopathic materia medica and therapeutics as where one road ends they show another path which can lead to recovery. This is the first detailed repertory of homeopathic nosodes and sarcodes. The purpose of this book is to vasualise the characterstic symptoms of nosodes and sarcodes in concise and practical form for easy comprehension. It is an excellent scientific approach to the important study of nosodes and sarcodes.

Anonymous
Anyway, most people waste no time in reading the author's preface, but I hope you will! For there may be some explanations as to why the volume was started, let alone completed, and per haps some suggestions from experience on how to use it. In fact, why nobody, to my knowledge. has compiled a repertory of the nosodes before this time seems to me a strange thing

The nosodes are unique remedies with a range of actions that closely follow the "standard" remedies of the Materia Medica yet also add a further important dimension. In fact, there are not too many cases that require and respond to Homoeopathic medicine that do not need at some point the judicious use of a nosode. Because many are preparations from body substances it stands to reason that they must have a peculiar affinity with the functions of the body.

CLINICAL INDICATION
This must lead to a consideration of how nosodes should be employed: not isopathically. Syphilis is not well treated by its nosode, neither is whooping cough or measles. Pertussin and Morbillinum may be used to increase immunity to whooping cough and measles, respectively-that is, to raise the opsonic index,- but not to create antibodies as do the conventional vaccines. But to treat a disease by the dynamised product of its infecting agent is to misapprehend entirely the nature of both homoeopathy and disease. I apologise for taking issue with so great a practitioner and author as Dr. O. A. Julian; but even then, while he recommended the use of isopathic prescr ing, he was careful to point out that the best homoeopathic prescription should be used in conjunc tion with the isopathic.

Homoeopathy is not Isopathy. Homoeopathy takes the totality of the signs and symptoms exhibited by the patient in mind and body and prescribes on that basis. It does not prescibe upon the presence of an infecting organism or a miasmatic background. As I also said, it is a misapprehen- sion of the nature of disease. Disease is a body/mind reaction. It has been said with a good degree of truth: "The mind decides to be ill and the body decides the symptoms". The fact that there is a 'germ' at the end of it is neither here nor there, that is only the third and least important pole of the eternal triangle. The whole point is to treat holistically; and a nosode should only be used when the case has been repertorized properly and it has been shown that the nosode fits the case.